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This book offers a careful re-reading of Popper's classic falsificationist demarcation of science, stressing its institutional aspects. Popper's social thinking about science, individuals, institutions, and rationality is tracked through The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies as he criticises and improves his earlier work. New links are established between the works of the 1935-1945 period, revealing them as a source for criticism of the institutions and governance of science

Drawing on biographical interviews with the protagonists of qualitative social science research in the Czech Republic, this article retraces the evolution of the qualitative approach before & after 1989 & presents in greater detail six major research projects conducted in the post-communist era. It takes a special interest in how the actors view their own work & offers a comparison of these investigations with "western scientific method." It examines the various levels of ties that exist between qualitative research & the field studied, underscores the interrelation between the researchers' stance & the agenda of research topics as well as the form of loyalty that takes shape toward the field over the course of research, & then the choices that are made as the findings it produces are interpreted. Adapted from the source document.

Research Methods for Business and Social Science Students aims to present a clear discussion of the research methods employed in various disciplines related to our daily life problems. The theoretical basis of research methods is explained clearly and succinctly. Collecting data is a key part of the book and this includes both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The book also describes in clear terms how students can analyse data, interpret results and link these to the literature review and hence their own contri

The most important step in social science research is the first step - finding a topic. Unfortunately, little guidance on this crucial and difficult challenge is available. Methodological studies and courses tend to focus on theory testing rather than theory generation. This book aims to redress that imbalance. The first part of the book offers an overview of the book's central concerns. How do social scientists arrive at ideas for their work? What are the different ways in which a study can contribute to knowledge in a field? The second part of the book offers suggestions about how to think creatively, including general strategies for finding a topic and heuristics for discovery. The third part of the book shows how data exploration may assist in generating theories and hypotheses. The fourth part of the book offers suggestions about how to fashion disparate ideas into a theory.

"This classroom-tested book fills a major gap in graduate- and professional-level data science and social science education. It can be used to train a new generation of social data scientists to tackle real-world problems and improve the skills and competencies of applied social scientists and public policy practitioners. It empowers you to use the massive and rapidly growing amounts of available data to interpret economic and social activities in a scientific and rigorous manner"--

This article reviews references of ethnography as a method in the social sciences gathered by using Google™, EBSCO, ProQuest, REDALYC, PSICODOC, Dialnet and LATINDEX. Anthropologists' postmodern self-critique has influenced social scientists and ethnography has increasingly become a way to explore our forms of life. This translates into a perspective that responds to ethical, political, cultural, and social concerns about the production of knowledge. It seeks to excise the distance between researchers, often by collaborating with consultants in research projects. The ensuing reflections evoke possibilities generated from interactions in the field and an appreciation of a complexity that poses methodological challenges for researchers who see the field as a space from which they cannot be extricated. ; Este artigo revisa as referências que falam sobre etnografia como metodologia e que foram recopilados através de Google™, EBSCO, ProQuest, REDALYC, PSICODOC, Dialnet e LATINDEX. A autocrítica dos antropólogos chegou a influenciar os cientistas sociais e a etnografia cresceu como uma maneira de explorar nossas formas de vida. Isso se traduz em uma perspectiva que responde às preocupações éticas, políticas, culturais e sociais acerca da produção de conhecimento. É uma perspectiva que trata de evitar a distância entre os investigadores e que costuma constituir-se em projetos de investigação colaborativa com consultores. As reflexões resultantes desta perspectiva evocam possibilidades geradas nas interações no campo e de uma apreciação de uma complexidade que suscita desafios metodológicos para os investigadores que vem o campo como um espaço a partir do qual não podem ser arrancados. ; Este artículo pasa revista las referencias que versan sobre etnografia como una metodología y que fueron recopilados a través de Google™, EBSCO, ProQuest, REDALYC, PSICODOC, Dialnet y LATINDEX. La auto-crítica de los antropólogos ha llegado a influir a los científicos sociales y la etnografia ha crecido como una manera de explorar ...

"The Berkeley School of Criminology stands, to this day, as one of the most significant developments in criminological thought and action. Its diverse participants, students and faculty, were true innovators, producing radical social analyses (getting to the roots causes) of institutions of criminal justice as part of broader relations of inequality, injustice, exploitation, patriarchy, and white supremacy within capitalist societies. Even more they situated criminology as an active part of opposition to these social institutions and the relations of harm they uphold. Their criminology was directly engaged in, and connected with, the struggles of resistance that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Not surprisingly perhaps, they became a target of regressive and reactionary forces that sought to quiet those struggles. Notably the Berkeley School of Criminology was targeted by key players in the US military-industrial complex such as Ronald Reagan himself, then Governor of California and Regent of UC-Berkeley.

Who Killed the Berkeley School? by Julia and Herman Schwendinger, key players in the Berkeley School, is the first full-length, in-depth analysis, of the Berkeley School of Criminology, its participants, and the attack against it. It tells the story of an important infrastructure of resistance, a resource of struggle, and how it was dismantled. It lays bare the role not only of conservatives but of liberal academics and false critical theorists, who failed to stand up in defense of the School and its work when called upon.

This is a story with profound lessons in the current period of corporatization of campuses, neoliberal education, and market-driven curricula. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with developing resistance to the corporate campus and seeking critical alternatives. It also stands as a challenge to social science disciplines, including criminology, to develop a practice that identifies the roots of social injustice and organizes to confront it."

1. Young British Pakistani Muslim men and concern with increased levels of criminalityBritain's Pakistani population; History of the increased association of Pakistani men with offending behaviour; Concern around drug dealing and cases of grooming white British girls; Have British Pakistani Muslim men really become more criminal?; Socioeconomic and sociostructural factors explaining the increase in offending among British Pakistanis; Conclusion; 2. Bradford is home turf, it's our city; Textile Bradford; Pakistani migrants arrive to work in Bradford's textile mills.

Communication pour l'école de printemps de l'IRISSO, Rambouillet, mai 2019 ; This article presents a review of the social science literature on the veterinary profession. It highlights the current debates on the profession. The texts discussed in this review mainly relate to the fields of history, sociology, political sciences and social geography, although multidisciplinary or management studies publications are sometimes referred to. This article analyses four major structuring dynamics: the sociodemographic evolutions that are currently taking place within the profession (1); the transformation of practices and knowledge in relation, on the one hand, to the increase in the number of pets (2) and, on the other hand, to the evolution of farming systems (3); and the ways public authorities govern veterinary public health (4). ; Cet article présente une revue de la littérature des sciences sociales sur la profession vétérinaire. Il met en lumière les débats actuels sur la profession. Les textes examinés dans cet état de l'art concernent principalement les domaines de l'histoire, de la sociologie, des sciences politiques et de la géographie sociale, bien qu'il soit parfois fait référence à des publications pluridisciplinaires ou à des études de gestion. Cet article analyse quatre grandes dynamiques structurantes : les évolutions sociodémographiques qui se produisent actuellement au sein de la profession (1) ; la transformation des pratiques et des connaissances en relation, d'une part, avec l'augmentation du nombre d'animaux de compagnie (2) et, d'autre part, avec l'évolution des systèmes d'élevage (3) ; et les modes de gouvernance de la santé publique vétérinaire par les pouvoirs publics (4).